Crafting Policies to Keep Coasts Resilient

Audubon will strengthen coastal safeguards and land-management policies to protect and promote resilient, high-quality coastal habitats. We will also advance public policies to better manage coastal forage fisheries that are critically important food sources to coastal birds. And we will push for policies that reduce threats to seabirds and shorebirds from oil and gas development and shipping accidents on the Arctic coast and in adjacent marine waters.

Piping Plover. Photo: Joel Sartore/National Geographic Photo Ark

Using Technology to Expand Our Knowledge

Invest in expanding our partnerships with top bird science organizations and experts. Strategic partnerships allow us to focus our time on opportunities that have the highest impact, while also extending our scientific expertise and influence in specialized topics and state-of-the-art methodologies.

10
Percent of Atlantic Piping Plovers that winter in Joulter Cays, the Bahamas

75
Piping Plover pairs nesting on the Great Lakes

100,000+
Acres in the newly designated Joulter Cays National Park

Scientists scan the intertidal area of the beach in Joulter Cays, Bahamas. Photo: Camilla Cerea/Audubon

Bahamas

Protecting Shorebird Habitat Throughout Their Lifecycles

In the Bahamas, Audubon is securing critical migration and wintering sites for the Piping Plover and other endangered shorebirds from the United States and Canada through science, policy, and community economic development.

Protect Birds Beyond National Boundaries

Our recent work together will protect wintering grounds in the Bahamas for Piping Plovers. We are also revolutionizing bird and nature tourism in the Bahamas—so far we’ve trained 70 bird guides, which empowers local people.